the regime stopped reporting their casualty's at the beginning of july when they really started going up. it is hard to have a clear connection across the table. estimates are high. especially if you consider the number killed. >> what about suni muslims? do we have a sense of how many defections there have been from a group? >> will not try to make an estimate of how many suni officers and soldiers are left, anyone who is still there fighting was still there fighting regardless. there are locked up on a base literally and enter a prison are there out there fighting at this point. there is some gray area in the sense that i think you could have a lot of the regime's willing to go to a checkpoint and play defense when they are attacked but not willing to go into an opposition in neighborhood and really do some of the more violent work. >> [indiscernible] >> you know, it is so hard to know, i will be honest with you. there is a teeny, tiny glimmer of hope that i hold that the consolation of activity with you have a senior regime official whose suni vice president whose name has been men